William Ewald

Professor of Law and Philosophy

Education

JD - Harvard - '81

DPhil (philosphy & math.) - Oxford - '78

BA - Harvard - '76

AM (mathematics) - Harvard - '76

William Ewald is an internationally recognized scholar in legal philosophy and comparative law. He is the author of an often-cited article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review on the philosophical foundations of comparative law, “What Was it Like to Try a Rat?” and is currently at work on a book, The Style of American Law, that examines, from a comparative perspective, the distinctive character of American law.
Continue reading…William Ewald is an internationally recognized scholar in legal philosophy and comparative law. He is the author of an often-cited article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review on the philosophical foundations of comparative law, “What Was it Like to Try a Rat?” and is currently at work on a book, The Style of American Law, that examines, from a comparative perspective, the distinctive character of American law. This work has led him to write on the legal philosophy of James Wilson, the first professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He also works in the philosophy of mathematics and is the editor of a standard source-book in philosophy of mathematics, From Kant to Hilbert (Oxford, 1996). He received an award from the John Templeton Foundation to pursue research in the foundations of mathematics.
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Expertise

Books

THE STYLE OF AMERICAN LAW.
(forthcoming)

HILBERTON THE FOUNDATIONSOF MATHEMATICSAND NATURAL SCIENCE (Six volumes of David Hilbert’s unpublished writings, with editorial commentary. Co-edited with Michael Hallett, Ulrich Majer, and Wilfried Sieg; in course of publication by Springer Verlag. Volume One was published in 2005; Volumes Three and Four 2009.)